Arranging Your iPhone Apps

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“Sometimes the shortest distance between points is a straight line in the opposite direction.”

If you’re like me, you’ve been furiously downloading iPhone applications. Some of the applications have been good for about a minute or two of fun (see the Hold button game) others have been hours of worthwhile fun.

To wit:

One of things I’ve found frustrating has been the way that the iPhone just places the downloading application at the end of the final page of applications, and does a poor to middling job putting the application back in place.

If your experience is anything like mine, you spend a lot of time re-arranging icons across two or more pages. This can to lead to minutes of frustration as you displace icons and have to rearrange pages unrelated to the program you just downloaded.

Here’s a quick tip for a little ninja move to make this process easier. Make room in your bottom dock to hold the “on-the-move” application as you swipe from page to page.

Then, when you’re on the page you want the application to go, just bring it back up and, voila, you haven’t displaced any application on an unrelated page.

Let me know if this little tip helps you.